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| Nepal Geography |
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| Country | Kingdom Of Nepal | | | | | Position | Lat: 80° 4' to 88° 12' East
Long: 26° 22' to 30° 27' North | | | | | Area | 145,391 square kilometers | | | | | Capital | Kathmandu | | | | | Local Time | GMT + 5 hours 45 minutes | | | | | Population | 23 million | | | | | Government | Multi-party democracy headed by a Constitutional Monarch | | | | | Religion | Hinduism(90%), Buddhism(6%),
Islam(3%), Christianity (1%) | | | | | Climate | Sub-tropical in the Terai lowlands
Temperate in the mid-hills
Alpine in the high Himalaya | | | | | Altitude Variation | 67 meters to 8848 meters | | | | | Mountain Range | Central Himalaya (885 kilometers) | | | | Peaks above
8,000 meters | Everest-8,848m, Kanchanjunga-8,586m
Lhotse-8,516m, Makalu-8,463m
Cho Oyu-8,201m, Dhaulagiri-8,167m,
Manaslu-8,167m, Annapurna-8,091m | | | | | Plant variety | Approx. 6,500 species includes Orchids, Rhododendron, Primulae and the exotic Himalayan Blue Poppy | | | | | Mammals | 180 species:
Includes Snow Leopard, Blue Sheep, Musk Deer, Royal Bengal Tiger, Great One Horned Rhinoceros, Fresh Water Dolphin | | | | | Birds | 846 species:
(about 10 percent of the world's variety) |
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